we have some flakes. a little bit of snow. west of town it's snowing. most of us by 6:00 will be seeing at least some light snow out there. it's going to be a quick hitter, perhaps an inch or so. the problem is the timing. grant county schools are going to delay by two hours due to some snow out in west virginia. i've been looking at some of the traffic cameras with monika in western maryland. it's snowing on i-68 and even i- 70 west of hagerstown. let's show you what's happening with our day planner. snow early. windy, a chilly day. y sunny, temperatures not moving much. highs upper 20s north and west to low 30s in most areas, 33, 34 perhaps with winds at times gusting toward 30 miles an hour. winter weather advisory covers the entire metro till 10:00 a.m. eastern shore your advisory goes till 11:00 a.m. for the quick hitter coming at us from the mountains. here it is coming across the region. not all of this reaching the ground just yet but this will

be a quick hitter as i said. by 9:00, 10:00 it will be exiting stage right, maybe dropping an inch of snow in spots. if it causes any problems on the roads, we'll let you know. right now you just want to make sure you give yourself a little extra time, especially if you're coming in from the north and west. by the way, laurel marc station, american legion lot is closed indefinitely with all of the flooding problems that they had yesterday. beltway looks good. no problems right now on the bw parkway in from laurel, route 50 in through cheverly and to the northeast corridor looks fine as well. all your potomac and anacostia river crossings are fine. if you're planning to head on the southbound side of i-95 out of laurel, all your lanes are open. no issues to report heading down to the beltway. back to the maps, this time over to southern maryland. no problems on route 4, route 5, route 301, 210 from accokeek, oxon hill across the wilson bridge here at the river. one more last live look, this time northbound 395 at the 14th street bridge.

>> thanks, monika. metro's general manager is apologizing for a meltdown that left rush hour commuters stuck when they were trying to get home. >> dozens of riders on powerless green line trains gave up. they left the trains. they hit the pavement. our delia goncalves is live at the navy yard station with the story. kind of a chilly night for a walk home, delia. >> reporter: and folks walked several miles home. they said it was a better way to get home because the shuttle buses, well, there just weren't enough of them. so a lot of them just trekked in the cold several miles to their homes. and it took several hours. the problem started here at navy yard. two metro green line trains did not get to their destination. and it took them two hours to get there. it was a terrible commute for those passengers. and they took pictures and tweeted out those pictures and sent messages of those massive crowds after folks pried open the metro doors to escape

through an emergency exit. they took to walking on the tracks after sitting in a hot, dark train stuck in a tunnel between navy yard and anacostia for hours. metro says the problem started with an electrical fire but proper protocol was not followed. >> it was hot and people was passing out. someone opened the emergency exit. we jumped out into the -- through the rails and ran to the nearest emergency exit. >> it was very inconvenient and messy. it took me two hours to get home. >> i'm disgusting with metro. i don't want to be here right now. >> reporter: that girl says that's her only way to commute and get around the city, so she has to take metro. that certainly is the argument that you hear from a number of folks. they are increasingly frustrated with metro and a lot of these delays and problems, but it's the only way to get around town. a handful of folks on wednesday night suffered asthma, even

panic attacks when they were inside the dark trains for several hours. no other major injuries fortunately. metro apologizing for that wednesday night fiasco. hear the rest of their explanation coming up at 5:30. jess, mike? >> definitely some misery. looks like it's snowing out there right now for you, delia. >> reporter: it's just starting to snow. i can only imagine what those folks were going through. it's getting a little nippy. we'll bundle up and bring you another live report in half an hour good see you then. some unlucky commuters will be trying to retrieve their cars too. a parking lot at the laurel marc station flooded. the city towed away the swamp cars which can be picked up at 350 municipal square in laurel. some commuters told us they knew not to park in the lot because there are flooding signs posted but because they signed up for marc alerts which warned emof the potential for some serious flooding and guess

what? it showed up. police are trying to find a driver who hit and killed a man in prince william county. the victim was found 10:30 wednesday morning along wood lawn drive in triangle. he died at the hospital. investigators believe a vehicle hit the victim while he was in the road but the driver just kept going. police are asking anyone with information to give them a call. arlington police have decided not to file charges against the son of virginia congressman jim moran. a hidden camera reported patrick moran in a discussion about committing voter fraud. moran quit as a field director of his father's campaign but he said he was humoring a person and thought it might have been a joke. now that person if you saw the video kept prodding him to try to get him to say something. the conservative group who made the undercover tape did not cooperate with the investigation. time right now is 5:05. i'm watching your money. let's see if we can do a repeat in february. wall street just finished its best january since 19 # 9. the

-- 1989. the dow flirted with 14,000. as for today traders are going to get a broader picture of the labor market when the government releases the january unemployment report. analysts expect that 164,000 to 170,000 jobs added last month while the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 7.8%. checks the numbers now, the dow lost 50 points in trade yesterday, starts today at 13,860. nasdaq basically flat on the day. s&p 500 down by about four points. a rare bipartisan vote in the senate. lawmakers have approved a plan to raise the debt limit. it would allow the government to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars more to meet its obligations. the house already passed a similar measure and president obama has promised to sign it into law when it hits his desk. without this bill, the government would have defaulted on its obligations in the next few weeks. this weekend a d.c. brewing company plans to introduce a special new beer.

the website says the brewer, chocolate city beer, is cooking up a brew called mr. mayor. it's made with something called -- not kidding here -- marion berries. marion berries are genetically engineered blackberry. marion berry beer. the last few days we've been celebrating, savoring, tasting d.c. meat week but not one of us has consumed nearly as much as one man did. the high on the hog eating contest was last night. see the skinny guy in the middle? there are three contestants in the photo and steve is smack in the middle with his arms folded. he downed a swandz witch with a pound -- sandwich with a pound of pulled pork, topped with coleslaw, cheese and barbecue sauce and ate a slab of ribs, two more brisket sausages, mac and cheese, baked beans, extra coleslaw, all of it in 45

minutes. >> wow. >> congratulations, steve. hopefully you were able to keep it all down. >> it's always the skinny guy. what is it with the skinny guy? just not fair. not fair. in the meantime, a squarey situation -- a scary situation in mid air. >> thankfully everything worked out on the west coast flight despite the pilot's mid air medical emergency. we have more on that coming up. >> ahead in sports, the super bowl opponents end up in the same practice facility as they [ male announcer ] verizon fios is the fastest internet in america. just ask pc mag. [ man ] "cable can't touch fios upload speeds." "it's hard to imagine anyone ever beating fios." "there's no doubt fios is the fastest in the country." [ male announcer ] after 110,000 speed tests, nothing came close to fios. and with fios you get unlimited internet use. period. because according to pc mag... [ man ] "if it's available, you should get it." [ male announcer ] last chance to get the fios triple play for an incredible price online of just $89.99 a month guaranteed for 2 years. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities and get $300 back at 800-974-6006 tty/v. with a 2-year agreement.

welcome back. 10 after 5:00 on this friday morning. some light snow developing some some areas. and that will be the case west to east. enough snow could cause some delays. grant, hampshire county in west virginia, two-hour delay. garrett county a two-hour delay. those are the only ones we know as of now. your forecast today starts with a little snow this morning. trace to an inch. look at those temperatures. pretty steady into the low 30s.

winds are going to become a problem. not like the other day but they'll still be gusty out of the west at times hitting 30 miles an hour. back in a few minutes with your weekend forecast. here comes monika samtani now with timesaver traffic. in montgomery county an accident now route 355 at perry parkway. also flooding problems still in place in loudoun county. evergreen mills road near belmont ridge road. no problems here on 270 in clarksburg. more later in a few minutes. back to you, mike and jess. >> thanks, monika. time is 5:11. here's a look at what's new this morning. rescue efforts have gone on all night in mess company city. -- mexico city. an explosion at the mexican- state owned oil company. the blast heavily damaged three floors of the skyscraper. so far there's no word on a possible cause. retired cardinal roger mahoney no longer has any church powers left. his removal comes after the los

angeles diocese released thousands of confidential documents detailing how he worked for years to try to keep priests who were sexually abusing kids in those case as secret. an alaska airlines night from los angeles to seattle diverted overnight after the pilot passed out. the copilot safely landed the plane in portland, oregon. a doctor on the plane tended to the pilot till they were met on the runway by medics. >> that's a little scary. 5:12 now. we're already seeing some snow flakes around the region. >> what lies ahead? we've got groundhog day, the first week of february. howard has some answers next in his seven-day forecast. oh!

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hello, friends. 5:15. that means big weather time. howard is on the phone working the phones, the internet, his facebook page. we saw some flakes around. >> getting reports from a lot of folks. even in manassas. even here in d.c. you saw delia goncalves out by the navy yard. so we're starting to see it break out a little bit. >> does this qualify as conversational snow? >> more nuisance. it's going to be more than a

conversation. it will fall between 9:00 and 10:00 and be out of here. it will be out quickly but may do enough damage with slick spots here and there to slow you down. we're seeing visibilities dropping here with a little light snow at reagan national. by 9:00, western areas will be clearing out already. by lunch time partly sunny, windy, 31, and perhaps we get to 33, 34. temperatures won't be moving much with the brisk westerly and west, northwesterly winds today at times gusting to 30 miles an hour. this disturbance, a quick moving one. look how fast it's moving across west virginia. now it's on top of us. again, another two, three, four hours this thing is gone and out of here but it will be a quick hitter for the morning commute. showing you how everything has filled in. not all of this reaching the ground yet but we're getting reports -- i tried to filter out the weakest returns on the radar. this one little band coming across southern fairfax county, d.c., central prince george's, some snow here as well. light snow in frederick. out to the west on i-81, that's where we're seeing some of the

lower visibilities with the snow up towards martinsburg and three-quarters after mile. a mile in winchester and three- quarters up in oakland and garrett county. we're down to 9. that's some really light snow here in town. temps really cold on the west side of the mountains. pittsburgh, cleveland in the teens. we're still in the 20s and 30s this morning. but behind that snow maker, more cold air is going to be coming in. 31 in college park and upper marlboro this morning. same in ashburn. many temperatures are at or below freezing. that's why we're concerned for a few slick spots. just a little snow in the air. visibility still pretty good. 36 with the light snow at national. feeling like 30 with the winds south at 8 miles an hour. futurecast, a quick moving system. here we are at 6:00 ap. by 9:00 -- 6:00 a.m. by 9:00 the back edge is trying to clear d.c. by lunch time this is out of here. just about clearing ocean city as well. there could be a couple two, three-inch totals as you head

toward the delmarva, southern jersey. another chance of snow overnight saturday night could drop another inch or dusting. 34 today. the light snow this morning. windy this afternoon. tonight we're down into the teens and 20s. tomorrow 36 with a chance for some snow showers tomorrow night. sunday early flurries, 41. we'll -- looks like a pretty good super bowl sunday around here. tuesday 45 with flurries. trying to push 50 by next thursday. monika, we have a little snow in a few spots now. >> yes. that means it could be slick. that means that you need to give yourself some extra time potentially, especially right now coming in from the north and the west. if you're planning to head over in gaithersburg, you want to watch out for an accident. i'll get to that in just a moment. first southbound 270, no problems right now as you head into clarksburg and germantown and north and wrest is where you want to be careful on the thoroughfares. now here's the accident. a live picture from our mdot camera northbound route 355 in

gaithersburg at the perry parkway. you'll have to follow just a bit of police direction to get around it but southbound lanes are open through this area. again, it's northbound 355 at perry parkway. let's take a look at our maps again this time heading in from the west. no issues right now on 66 in manassas,. the dulles toll road looks okay from the airport. the beltway looks fine through tysons and annandale. on the northbound side of 95 which is always bunching up at this time of the morning in springfield. back to you guys. >> thanks, monika. we take a stroll down radio row at the super bowl and find some familiar faces. that's coming up. >> indeed, we do. plus, the caps are trying like crazy to get out of their early season slump. highlights coming up. >> we invite you to log on to our wusa9 facebook fan page. take a stab at the washington golf show question of the morning. it is a record number of women tuned in to watch last year's super bowl. out of the 111.5 million people who watched the super bowl last year, what percentage were

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welcome back. your weather first on this friday morning. some snow out there. berkley and mineral counties adding to a growing list of school delays. just about all are western maryland and west virginia. i just got off the phone with scott in sperryville. got a squall going through there. we're going to watch this disturbance ride east rather fast. watch how quickly by 9:00 it starts to pull away from the region. sunshine, temps down in the 20s across much of virginia. we'll say goodbye to the snow by noon just about everywhere if not earlier. highs this afternoon only in the low 30s if not upper 20s with the winds. good morning, everybody. coming to you from the super dome in new orleans. the ravens and 49ers all week have been practicing at different facilities. that all changed yesterday. they had to play a little keep

away to hide from each other. the ravens started practicing at tulane university but moved in the afternoon to the saints facility where the 49ers. they blacked out windows in the weight room so the teams wouldn't see each other. we won't hear from the players anymore till aft big game but today we'll -- after the big game but today we'll hear jointly from both coaches in the same press conference. here they give us a little preview. >> we thought we would switch uniforms and i would come dressed as jim and jim could come dressed as me and see if you could figure it out. >> they're an extremely well coached team. that's documented really, the heart of the team. the to things that worries us the most is it's a talented team that plays with a lot of heart. >> reporter: we'll have full coverage of the press conference for you this evening. we also navigated radio row at the convention center. it's where all the big name athletes and celebrities go for interviews. hundreds of radio stations are there. we ran into two guys who are

blasts from the past in the d.c. area and asked them to weigh in on the big game. >> obviously when you win a championship with the game and ray especially, ray and steve are two guys that i owe a lot to. >> i think he's got trust in bold din. in critical situations, those are the guys he goes to. >> reporter: also in action last night, the capitals visiting toronto. alex ovechkin gets to work putting thcaps up 2-1 early per leafs battled back. they pick up their first home win of the season beating the caps 3-2. the caps now only have just one win on the season. that will do it for us here in new orleans. we'll see you this evening. i'm kristin better berset. -- imakristen berset. have a great -- i'm kristen berset. have a great friday. a

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no strings attached. carmax. start here. time right now is 5:29. welcome back. i'm jessica doyle. andrea roane is on assignment. >> she'll be back monday. she's at the super bowl. it's super bowl friday. we're happy about that. here's monika samtani. >> tomorrow is super bowl saturday. >> it's a whole super bowl week. we've been having some fun. mr. bernstein swrerks school delays -- mr. bernstein, we have school delays. >> mineral, grant, hampshire and berkley county schools are delayed by two hours today. in maryland, garrett and allegheny counties. monika will have more on the traffic and how the snow might be affecting that now. weather wise it's interesting. some light stuff and then you

have these bands coming down. getting reports in west virginia and straussburg, virginia. the bands are coming across and boom, comes down fast and furious and 20 minutes, 30 minutes later things are nice and light again but you can pick up quarter to half an inch in no time like that. light snow being reported at reagan national this past hour with temperatures just above freezing. we're going to be close to freezing here over the next few hours. and then this thing will be gone by mid-morning. it's a fast hitter. might drop an inch in a few spots. 31 by noon. temperatures pretty steady this afternoon from the upper 20s and low 30s with the brink west winds at 30 miles an hour. there's our winter weather advisory covering the immediate metro till 10:00. eastern shore till 11:00 this morning. as we're watching this fast moving disturbance come across the region. we're in the 20s. upper 20s north and west. we have some roads that are covered up here. these banding areas of snow that we'll be dealing with for a few more hours. let's check in with monika samtani and find out if that's affect be the ride in.

>> reporter: not close in as howard said but you do want to be careful because that snow could cause very slippery conditions out on the roadways early this morning. although it's friday morning light, i still want you to be aware of that. dulles toll road, 66 close in, they both look good heading for the beltway and sighsons corner. gw -- tysons corner. gw parkway looks good. in gaithersburg on the northbound side of route 355, right here under the ticker here, northbound route 355 at perry parkway, all lanes have been blocked for a while. so follow police direction there. but luckily for the rush hour flow you're okay. southbound side remains open. back to the map, this time heading over to the bw parkway and route 50 through cheverly. no issues. a live look outside one more time and here's what it looks like coming in from laurel on i- 95. mike and jess? >> thanks, monika. a big changeover at one of the top cabinet posts for the president. >> hilly clinton -- hillary clinton is in the final hours as secretary of state. she'll have a meeting this

morning and say goodbye to her staff. her replacement massachusetts senator john kerry will be sworn in as the nation's new top diplomat. as for a new defense secretary, members of the senate armed services committee grilled nominee chuck hagel yesterday. hagel apologized for past controversial statements and defended his record of votes as a senator. if the senate did confirm hagel's nomination next week, wee become the first enlisted man and vietnam veteran to lead the pentagon. frustrating commute home from work yesterday. they got stuck and after getting no instructions from metro, they took matters into their own hands. dozens of commuters wound up abandoning their green line trains and walking to their destinations last night. metro's general manager is apologizing properly policing -- apologizing promising some improvements. delia goncalves has more. >> reporter: good morning. it certainly was a big mess and it was a cold night for it. we talked to the manager at starbucks who is kitty corner

from the navy yard metro station who says it looked like inauguration all over again with just swarms of people who were outside here at navy yard after the if fiasco happened inside. we'll take a look at some video and some pictures that fecks tweeted out of those massive crowds. panicked passengers pried open metro doors. they hopped on to the tracks and escaped through an emergency exit, this after two green line trains were stuck between navy yard and anacostia. they were stuck in dark opportunity hims for two hours. metro says the problem started around 5:00 in the evening with a track fire. an employee cut off president clinton electricity to fix the problem. that was owe -- cut off the electricity to fix the problem.

>> folks were on the trains, the two trains without power. some had alarm for being in that situation. i apologize for that. it's unacceptable to our customers. it's unacceptable to me. >> reporter: unacceptable to the general manager. he says he is now investigating. we'll have more on the investigation coming up at 6:00. mike, back to you. >> thanks, delia. a heads up for metro riders now. this weekend expect some major delays on both the blue and orange lines due to track work, trying to fix any problems. starting tonight at 10:00. six orange line stations will be closed between federal station and cheverly. the blue line trains won't run between federal center and benning road stations. all the stations will be reopened monday morning. time right now is 5:34. i'm watching your money. in about three hours, we're going to have a pretty good idea which way the markets will head today. that's when the labor department releases the january jobs report.

analysts believe businesses added about 170,000 jobs last month. still they don't think that's enough because so many people remain out of work and they expect the jobless rate to hold steady at 7.8%. wednesday. the government announced the economy shrank in the final quarter of 2012. that hasn't happened in three years. thank you very much, fiscal cliff. the white house also responded to republican criticism after president obama disbanded his jobs council. >> the white house says the council was only intended to last for to years. the group met four -- for two years. the group met four times during its tenure and hasn't met in more than a year. do you have a little girl who tends to scream a little bit when she gets excited? you might want to cover your

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. welcome back. 5:38. we're dealing with some snow. in purcelville, they have snow sticking to the ground with the moderate band of snow moving in from parts of west virginia and the shenandoah valley. here's a look at your forecast. we have winter weather advisories till 10:00. moderate bands of snow the next few hours, a dusting to an inch. we'll clear out mid- to late morning. looking at partly sunny and windy for the afternoon. winds could gust to 30 miles an hour. highs staying fairly steady, upper 20s to low 30s. the snow is coming down. southbound i-270 here in clarksburg at route 121. that with the combination of the volume could cause problems. keep your speed limits down and

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al pacino plays a man who has just gotten out of prison. the "u.s.a. today" reviewer renamed this butch cassidy and the sun dance grandpa. >> who's not aging in that group? >> all of them. >> that's hysterical. sylvester stallone has been an action figure forever. his face is only ten years old. >> he does look pretty good. >> thanks, monika. many people have no interest in watching the super bowl. instead they tune in for the commercials. >> we talked with one of the experts who tracked which ads score and which alds get sacked. -- ads get sacked. let's see who's celebrating a birthday today.

welcome back. snow causing a bunch of school delays. berkley, grant, hampshire, jefferson, mineral and more began. in maryland allegany, garrett and washington. in virginia, frederick, shenandoah and warren on two- hour delays thanks to early snow. we'll pick up an inch or so in spots. winds will pick up out of the northwest at 15 to 25 miles an

hour. sun is not up till 7:14. the traffic camera on 270 by clarksburg in upper montgomery county picking up a band of snow. look how fast it's racing toward the east. give it another to, three hours, this thing will -- two, three hours, this thing will generally be east of us. the timing is the problem. heard from scott in sperryville. he said it was down to a quarter mile visibility. picked up a quarter inch like that. for folks if west virginia as well. purcelville, we know we have moderate snow. see the bright light area heading into upper montgomery county, that's one band. another band south of town coming through prince george's county and anne arundel county. southern fauquier, coming right here. just a little bit brighter. that's where we're getting probably a little stickage on the ground. visibilities also tell the story when you're trying to figure out if it's snowing hard or snowing light. when you have visibilities down to a mile in oakland and luray, three miles in martinsburg and hagerstown, that's a sign it's

light, maybe bordering on moderate snow in spots. even in d.c. visibility was down to seven miles with light snow. lots of cold air on the west side of the mountains. we're still relatively mild, in the 20s and 30s. as the disturbance comes across, the cold will follow. and temperatures won't be moving much today. we're down to 29 in round hill and lovettsville. you know it's sticking to the ground there in purcelville. moderate bands in clarksburg with we know it's sticking there. springfield, alexandria, 33. same with waldorf. we're boarder line freezing in spots. if it snows heavily enough, it with stick on surfaces at or just above freezing. we're looking on our weather camera. good visibility on the capitol. light snow on the hour at national. with dry air, humidity 65%, we've had to overcome a little bit of the dry air for the snow to stick and actually reach the ground is what i'm saying. here's the futurecast. you'll watch this quickly race

east. by 9:00 most of it now d.c. and east. west is clearing out. we'll see the sun for the afternoon but the wind as well. winds at times will gust to 30 miles an hour. a cold night tonight. then another disturbance later saturday. saturday night could give us a dusting to maybe an inch of snow here overnight saturday night into sunday morning. so winter weather advisory till 10:00 a.m. 34 today. with the breeze gusting to 30 at times. tonight quiet, 22 in town. 14 in the suburbs. tomorrow 36, nighttime snow showers. 41 on super bowl sunday which of course you'll be watching right here on wusa9 starting in the afternoon. game kicks off 6:30. 45 by tuesday. perhaps a flurry passing then. monika samtani, we know it's snowing in spots. is it sticking on the roads? it doesn't seem to be sticking on the roads. maybe just causing a little bit of a slushy condition. other than that, you're going to see it sticking on the side of the road. for example, on the southbound side of i-270, let's take that live look in clarksburg at route 121. i was looking at all the

cameras. you can see it's sticking on the side of the roads here. actually it is beginning to slow things down on the road as well southbound on i-270. so maybe some slushy and wet conditions that you'll have to deal with. keep your distance from the car in front of you, please. we'll take a look at the maps again. this time we're heading all the way into virginia. i'm getting word it's slowing down on the northbound side of i-95 here in the triangle area. a little more as you cross the occoquan river. let's take a live look on 66 on the inbound side coming in from gainesville to manassas on our traffic camera. watch out for some slow traffic. northbound i-95 here in springfield same story. back to you, jess and mike. >> thanks, monika. this week we've been counting down the days to sunday's big game by replaying some of our favorite super bowl commercials like when a car company decided to have an actor in his late 40s revisit a role he played as a teenager. >> so dashing. come on. nowadays lots of people go by themselves. >> no, they don't.

>> hey, son, have fun tonight. >> that was supposed to be the matthew broderick commercial we loved so much where he reprises his role as fear ris bueller. now we are -- ferris bueller. now we're joined by laura and glance at some commercials behind us on the monitor. we've got to ask you first, what makes such a memorable commercial? what is that special sauce you're looking for? >> you know what really stands out? it's ads with humor. the super bowl is not just a sporting event. it's an entertainment event. people want to laugh v a good time. if you can get the humor in there, get the audience to belly laugh-- >> it's so fantastic that

you've been doing this. you've been doing it for 25 years. what will you be doing on sunday sampling with the folks watching? >> in the past "u.s.a. today" has gathered smaller focus groups across the country and had them rate the ads in real time. this year we're doing something very different to mark our 25th anniversary. what we're going to do is open it up to consumers across the nation for them to vote online on sunday. they just have to go to the web side to register. and then they can come back on sunday and rate the ads from one to ten, best to worst. >> you're getting the audience involved. social media is a huge trend not just with you guys but also with itself ad business in -- the ad business in general. what's trending right now? good social media is a huge trend. it's been building each year. it's great for marketers. water cooler type feedback. this year many marketers are going for consumer attraction. we're asking consumers to weigh in on what ads they should run. we're asking them to send in pictures so they can incorporate them in the ads. they're asking for tweets.

>> there's been a lot of controversy. we've seen some ads released early this year which we haven't seen a lot of in the past. and people are getting fired up about these ads already. >> you know what happens when you release them early? there's a very fine line with the benefit from it or the cost that you pay. if you release them early, you get lots of publicity, lots of pre-game buzz. you stretch out the money you pay for the big game ad but there's lots of time for scrutiny. you have to weigh the cost benefits. >> you have been on the beat. you've been checking out the early releases of the super bowl ads. what have you seen so far? do you have any favorites? >> broadly i've seen some trends. there's lots of celebrities year's ads. you'll see some familiar faces. i'm see some geeky guys. keep an eye out for ads with underwear. there's quite a few featuring participanties and underwear. >> got our attention. >> how can you go wrong with underwear but you kind of can. there's a sweet, sensitive ad

from budweiser featuring a clydesdale which is a little bit of a different direction to go for a super bowl advertiser but they've done really well in the past with the clydesdale ads. >> you're getting us fired up and excited for the cute commercials and the guys in the underwear. thanks so much for coming n. i'll send it over to mike. coming up in about 12 minutes, we'll talk about some of the more controversial super bowl ads as well. speaking of football, how deep is the love for your favorite sports team? a sports psychologist joins us after the break to talk about fan which is short for fanatic. we'll

welcome back. howard here with your weather first. want to show you the radar we. have moderate snow from around leesburg and sterming through upper -- sterling through upper montgomery county. this will stick to the roads a little bit. we could end up with an inch in spots before this is out. there are areas in frederick county out into the mountains of west virginia, northern virginia that are seeing some accumulations on the road so be careful. >> i can't wait to do this story. thanks, howard. many skins fans of course are jealous. a lot of ravens around here too. they're in the super bowl and the skins are not. there are diehard fans out there who are so connected with their teams, that a loss feels personal to them. are you one of those people? i could be that way with my patriots and my uconn huskies and a lot of us in our newsroom are like this. we have a husband and wife, one is a ravens fan, another a

skins fan. we have a mental health professional here to talk about why we get so invested. how does it go in your house? you obviously have opposing teams to root for. say the ravens lost this season to -- who did they lose to? >> the redskins. >> oh, that must have been a fun time in your house. >> yeah, it was. >> do you take it personally? does it affect your relationship? >> i was grumpy. we went to the redskins-ravens game. my daughter and my husband stopped talking to me. >> they stopped talking to you? >> stopped talking to me at the game. >> do you find it carries over to the next day? you go to work, grrr. full disclosure. our executive producer in your -- producer is in your spin class and you take it out on them. >> i take it out on them, exactly. that day i came in and she was

at class. it was one of the hardest classes i taught because i was like ugh. >> what are your feelings like? when the redskins lose, it's one of the most promising seasons the redskins have had in a long time, rg3, concerned about injuries all the way through the year as well. they lose. what's your day like? >> well, you've been in this town long enough to know that my day is like everybody else's. i have problems functioning and i'm not very happy. as the psychiatrist laughs over there. >> why does this happen? why do we take it so personally? they didn't play in the game. they don't necessarily have a paycheck from the ravens or the redskins? their livelihood doesn't depend on it. why do they get so worked up? >> if you stuck them into an s m.r.i. which is a functional m.r.i. machine and hoods at their brains -- and you looked at their brains while watching the

game, if the redskins were doing well, his striatum would light up. if we drew your blood while watching the game, both of you, your testosterone levels would go up and the cortisol levels would go up. those protect your sense of self-esteem. so there is actually brain chemistry. >> we identify physically with the teams. we're not pudding on pads. i feel that way about my college basketball team so i totally understand. how do you cope with it? what do you do? >> yell at people. i work for myself. very my own business so it's pretty easy. i don't have a spin class but i take it out in other ways. >> how do you cope with it? >> i get along fine. he's the one. he's been doing it since he was 8 years old. he's very passionate, his entire family. they're just mean. yes, i've said